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 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 
 LIBRARY 
 
 MEMORIAL 
 
 the Class of 1901 
 
 founded by 
 
 HARLAN HOYT HORNER 
 
 and 
 
 HENRIETTA CALHOUN HORNER 
 
Digitized by the Internet Archive 
 
 in 2012 with funding from 
 
 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 
 
 http://www.archive.org/details/genealogyoftoddfOOtodd 
 
A GENEALOGY OF THE TODD-FAMILY 
 
 DESCENDANTS AND CELEBRITIES 
 
 MARY TODD 
 
 wife 
 
 ABRAHAM LINCOLN 
 
 1951 
 
 —Malcolm N. Todd, B.S., A.B.. M.S. 
 Address: — Lawrenceville, Illinois 
 
MALCOLM N. TODD 
 

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 PREFACE 
 
 Had I waited to make this genealogy perfect, it might 
 never have been written. Then, please, pardon the imper- 
 fections and let us work for perfection. Those who are 
 interested should bear in mind that the writer is not supposed 
 to make dates of births and events just to fit satisfactorly 
 into his family tree. He is aware that there are some dis- 
 agreements and conflicts even in the records of land deeds, 
 biographical sketches and historical discourses. He has 
 recorded them as he found them, hoping that some one will 
 furnish authentic information for satisfactory adjustments. 
 You may notice the similarity of the Christian names which 
 has caused some confusion and also it was not uncommon to 
 find intermarriages in the early pioneer days. For example, 
 Mary Todd Lincoln's stepmother was her father's first cousin. 
 
 The writer is most interested, of course, in his own family 
 tree, but has recorded in this book considerable information 
 concerning the various branches of Todds, trusting that there 
 might be some one who wishes to continue this work and may 
 use some of the information that has fallen into this compila- 
 tion. To list the descendents of all the Todd lineage would 
 require a book of many hundred pages. 
 
 Let us hope that some day there can be a "Todd-family 
 Society" with a secretary for compiling the statistics for 
 immediate use to those desiring such information. The 
 interest of the American people in genealogies seems, to be 
 growing rapidly, as indicated by the number of research bu- 
 reaus:- namely departments in public libraries, state historical 
 societies and even commercial organizations which are be- 
 coming numerous on account of the demands and are making 
 valuable information available. 
 
 — MNT. 
 
SIDE LIGHTS 
 
 Men and women throughout the country are discovering 
 a new world of pleasure and interest in the pursuit of their 
 ancestors. Their motives vary:- some are simply curious, 
 some want to become members of the Sons or Daughters of 
 the American Revolution or other patriotic hereditary socie- 
 ties, some seek to establish a relationship with a historical 
 celebrity. 
 
 iWhether or not an ancestor was prominent and usually 
 few are, nevertheless he contributed to the building of this 
 nation. One genealogical expert points out that it teaches 
 more history, geography, and the psychology of human be- 
 havior than stamp collecting. "It is more exciting," he de- 
 clares, "to locate an ancestor than a rare two-cent stamp." 
 
 Most Americans are not interested in their genealogy. 
 Therefore the writer ought to apologize for this brief at- 
 tempt on one branch of his family's genealogy which may 
 bring some pride and pleasure to some of the kin, but bear 
 in mind that it is not written to be sold over the counter. 
 
 In by-gone days men were ranked largely by their ances- 
 try, and in biblical times it was considered so important that 
 the scriptures gave it a prominent place. To the modern 
 reader of the Bible, the line of David down to Jesus Christ 
 carried traditional authenticity of historical and legendary 
 facts. Today in America, particularly, men are measured by 
 the success of their own efforts, perseverance and person- 
 ality. 
 
 We sometime hear people say, "I do not believe in hered- 
 ity,- just look at Abraham Lincoln." Abraham Lincoln is one 
 of the best examples of influence of heredity we have. If 
 Lincoln's greatness is due to his early education and sur- 
 roundings, then we had better tear down our school houses 
 and set our boys splitting rails, making sure in advance that 
 they were born in log cabins. Whatever may have been 
 Lincoln's ancestry, it was the happy combinations of chromo- 
 somes and genes with which he was born that made him 
 great. The thing about great blood is that it overcomes all 
 environment and rises to its level in the social and national 
 life. This does not mean that training and schooling wduld 
 not have been a good thing for Lincoln. 
 
 FIVE 
 
Heredity teaches us that man is "master of his fate and 
 captain of his soul," and also shows us that the kingdom of 
 heaven is within a man's heart and not in the chance of cir- 
 cumstances and surroundings of a man's life.i Hans Christian 
 Anderson left with us this quotation: "It matters not if you 
 were born in a duck pond, provided that you were born from 
 a swan's egg." Some people, I have noticed, spend half their 
 time boasting of their illustrious ancestors. They forget that 
 these ancestors are like potatoes — the best half of them are 
 under the ground. jDo you wonder what these ancestors 
 would think if they could come back and see some of their 
 descendents today? The "ghost" might take a good look, 
 draw a long breath, and hurry back to the shades immed- 
 iately. 
 
 Mankind is the greatest accomplishment of the world. 
 God gave you an innate ability and the thing that counts in 
 your life is, what are you going to do with it. 
 
 We all have pedigrees, some good, some fair, and maybe 
 some bad,- but what of it. It is no longer the ladder by 
 which one may enter the social pleasures and distinctions in 
 the modern-way-of-life. All in all, you cannot escape the fact 
 that your ascendents were human beings, not merely names 
 which have survived the musty old records. They lived and 
 breathed, had their joys and pleasures, their trials and tribu- 
 lations, their work and play, however different these may 
 have been from yours. Moreover you will find that they, 
 obscurely or prominently, took their part in the affairs of 
 their times and contributed in some way to the development 
 of civilization. By learning more about them and their times, 
 you will be wiser in knowing, "How they got that way." 
 
 jChapters on ancestry are usually rather dull. These 
 tedious mass of names and dates is about as interesting read- 
 ing as the pages of an unabridge dictionary., Oliver Wendell 
 Holmes said, "Each of us is an omnibus in which our ancestry 
 rides; and we should know something of the passengers we 
 are conveying." 
 
 When scientists cannot agree on the relative value of 
 environment and heredity in the individual, surely we can 
 only speculate. (Still family traditions are factors in our edu- 
 cation, and our talent for music or what-not, may be the 
 result of the family's love and respect for music. Examine 
 the family tree, then, to see what sort of persons your ances- 
 tors were and what aptitudes, tastes, and talents they pos- 
 sessed. 
 
 If you have studied natural science, even in a high school 
 course in biology, your mind may begin to analyze in terms 
 of Mendel's law and further you may argue in terms of genes 
 and chromosomes, or most likely you may show no interest 
 
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whatever in your genealogy. To me it is of interest momen- 
 tarily. Just as writing a letter to my kin or a friend, I want 
 to tell them something. Teaching is my business, and it be- 
 comes a pleasure to tell something important that may be old 
 but of some value and also something new that should be 
 made known. Eventually it may be of service, at least to a 
 few. I have made no scientific research of my family's 
 genealogy further than collections made from voluminous 
 readings in general, by conversations and from materials 
 found upon the subject in Illinois State Library, Illinois State 
 Historical Library, State Historical Library of Kentucky, the 
 Congressional Library, and the Newberry Library, Chicago. 
 A cousin of mine, Mr. Elza Todd and a distant relative, Mr. 
 Dan B. Bishop have made it a study and gone to much 
 expense in travel to examine documents in the various court 
 houses and are happy to say that a great many of the tradi- 
 tional information have been verified. It is indeed inter- 
 esting to trace, step by step, generation by generation and 
 then know where your blood came from and it may be quite 
 definite as to your immigrant ancestry or even some general 
 idea of your ancestry. Telephone directories in towns and 
 cities have a list of homes and business' where the father is 
 listed under "Todd" besides the Todd sisters who changed 
 their names in wedlock, and may be listed under their hus- 
 band's name, which carry the same genealogy. The Todd 
 genealogy has recently been brought to the world-wide atten- 
 tion by the book entitled, "Mary Todd Lincoln" by Carl Sand- 
 burg. No doubt the spotlight of the immortal Lincoln has 
 given much emphasis and color to this family. But what- 
 ever is told in this discourse, be it true or fiction, the gene- 
 alogy of this noted family will carry a heritage that played 
 and will play a very prominent part in the annals of history. 
 Should you be one of those whose forefathers are in this 
 great bracket of descendants then you should be proud of 
 the fact and try to live so that it receives more honor through 
 your service for posterity. 
 
 It does fascinate one to know that, in general, some of 
 the Todds came by way of the Cumberland Gap through which 
 the earlier settlers traveled westward into Kentucky and 
 Tennessee. This was far more than a railroad pass before 
 the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was built. The state of 
 "Frankland" will be more than a mere phrase in the school 
 textbook if your ancestors settled in Kentucky or Tennessee 
 about 1784. This state of Frankland was formed and lived 
 only a short time by people who longed for further freedom. 
 
 It was my pleasure to hear sometime past a noted speaker 
 say that the immigration through the Cumberland Gap into 
 the near west reminded him of a saucer of milk in which the 
 cream had gathered on the surface, and if there happened to 
 be a nick in the edge of the saucer and slightly tilted, it would 
 
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permit all the cream to run off. Likewise the Cumberland 
 Gap permitted the cream of the inhabitants of Virginia, Caro- 
 linas and coastal states to migrate through to find the land of 
 plenty: — the golden opportunity for the settlers seeking eco- 
 nomic freedom. iTimothy Flint, a traveler of 1830, said of 
 the inhabitants of Kentucky and Tennessee that they were a 
 race of proud optimists, an ardent, boastful and enthusiastic 
 breed, who made a religion of their politics and a creed of 
 their hospitality. 
 
 The name "Todd" is found everywhere in western civili- 
 zation, and dates back centuries before the discovery of 
 America. In the play, Abraham Lincoln, (Drinkwater) one 
 line has him to say, "The Todds must be very bright people 
 for it took two "d's" to spell their name when God only used 
 one." There are records of thousands and thousands of 
 Todds, and it is quite safe to say that more than a million 
 people have some of the genes of the great family in the 
 chromosomes of their cells. (Formerly we spoke of it as the 
 same blood which flowed through their veins.) 
 
 EIGHT 
 
THE NAME AND SOME PERSONALITIES 
 
 The name Todd is an altered form of the Scotch word 
 tod, meaning "fox." It is said undoubtedly that the first 
 person to assume the name was a very keen sportsman. Of 
 the two spellings, Todd and Tod, the former is much more 
 common. With the exception of one branch, the family of 
 Todd originally came from Scotland. 
 
 There is an Irish branch of the family which derived it's 
 name from the translation of the surname "Shanaugh," Irish 
 for "fox", into the Scotch or English Todd, when a law was 
 passed by the English Parliament compelled all Irish to as- 
 sume English surnames. 
 
 Then if the surname of Todd was given to keen sportsman 
 who followed the hounds in the hue and cry of chasing the 
 tod (fox) naturally he was a tod hunter and some would 
 assume the surname of Tod hunter, a nimrod indeed. 
 
 An amusing story is told of a market gardner of Middle- 
 sex which might indicate that the name had something to do 
 with the sly wit of a fox. The gardner being haled before a 
 magistrate for not having painted on his cart his name, his 
 place of residence, and the words, "Taxed cart", declared that 
 he had complied with the law in every particular and invited 
 the court to inspect his cart upon which was printed: 
 
 "A Most Odd Act On A Taxed Cart" 
 
 This did not mollify the court until it was explained to 
 him that it could be interpreted: 
 
 "Amos Todd. Action. A Taxed Cart" 
 
 Besides the two English spellings of Todd and Tod, there 
 occurs in the German form, Tode, Dode, Tott, and Todt, as 
 well as the French forms, Dodo, Dode, Doth'ee and Todz. 
 The Gothic, which is said to be another form of the name, 
 has been translated as the "people's ruler." 
 
 The Todds were people of much influence as recorded 
 by Sandburg, Helm and others. Among the Todds there 
 were many worthy of notice, but the space permits us to 
 mention only a few. 
 
 James Henthorn Todd, one of the best known Irish 
 scholars in his day (born 1805) was consulted by both state- 
 men and theologians. Henry John Todd edited Johnson's 
 dictionary to which he added several thousand words. He 
 
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was also the editor for Milton. Robert Bentley Todd was a 
 physician of great renown in the early part of the nineteenth 
 century. His statue may be seen at King's College Hospital. 
 David Todd had a world-wide reputation as an astronomer. 
 
 The "Mary" of Coleridge's verse was Mary Evans Todd 
 of Yorkshire, the stronghold of the Todds for centuries. 
 
 Among the Pilgrim Fathers from Yorkshire was Chris- 
 topher Todd. He was the son of William Todd who was the 
 son of a William Todd. Christopher was a prominent per- 
 sonage in New Haven who came over with his wife, Grace, 
 and several children about 1639. What is now the campus 
 of Yale University was a part of Christopher's estate. Many 
 of his descendants now live in New Haven. 
 
 There was an Adam Todd who settled in New York 
 sometime previous to the Revolutionary War. He died in 
 1765. He was from the highlands of Scotland and wore the 
 full garb. His wife Sarah, has been mentioned honorably 
 for her loyalty as the "Woman of the Revolution". Their 
 home was on Cliff Street, New York. When the British took 
 possession of the city she left it, but quickly returned when 
 she heard that a servant whom she left in charge of her house, 
 was passing herself off as the mistress and was taking in 
 boarders. iShe remained through the war with her daughters 
 and was a ministering angel to the prisoners and the wounded 
 in the hospitals. Her home was called "Rebel Headquarters" 
 by the British, and an officer said of her and her daughters, 
 "They are the rebels in New York." 
 
 To the house of her daughter, Mrs. Margaret Whetten, 
 was first brought the news of peace to the citizens of New 
 York. Mrs. Todd received a letter from General Washington 
 expressing thanks and gratitude in behalf of the country, and 
 asked leave to breakfast with her. During the meal he rose 
 twice to thank her for her devoted loyalty. "The sword of 
 the Lord and Washington prevail," was Mrs. Todd's expres- 
 sion of her faith in the righteousness of the cause. Some 
 British soldiers in her house were drinking and asked her 
 for a toast. "Why, we eat toast," she replied with so much 
 simplicity that they supposed her ignorant of the meaning of 
 the word. Mrs. Todd's grave is in St. Paul's churchyard, 
 New York City. Her daughter, Sarrah married Brevoort, 
 one of the family whose name perpetuated in many ways the 
 metropolis that the family helped to build. Adam Todd, the 
 second, married Mary Dodge, daughter of Jeremiah and 
 Margaret Vanderbilt Dodge. The wife of John Jacob Aster, 
 colonist, was Sarrah Todd. They were married about the 
 year 1785. Their son. William married Margaret Armstrong. 
 Vincent Astor is the fifth generation from John Jacob Aster 
 and Sarrah Astor. 
 
 TEN 
 
Timothy Todd of Vermont, a surgeon, was at the battle 
 of Benington and a member of the Governor's council. Ebner 
 Todd served through the war of the Revolution. 
 
 Thomas Todd was also a member of the Continental 
 Army. His son, Charles was one of General Harrison's four 
 aides and afterward minister to Russian Court. 
 
 In the war of 1812, George Todd was a Lieutenant 
 Colonel. His son, David, was Governor of Ohio. 
 
 John Todd of Vermont was a preacher, author and edu- 
 cator. His Student's Manual had a great vogue, and he 
 helped to found Mt. Holyoke Seminary. 
 
 The Todds patented land in Gloucester County, Virginia, 
 in 1652 and Toddsbury Manor was their home. Thomas Todd 
 was the builder of Toddsbury House in 1658 and by his will 
 it passed to his son, Thomas. The house built of brick walls 
 around the garden show extreme age. It is beautifully pan- 
 eled on the inside. For generations it was the home of the 
 Todds, who were noted for their lavished hospitality., There 
 was a Christopher Todd and a Francis Todd as the tomb- 
 stones show. 
 
 Many times there has been asked questions concerning 
 the coat-of-arms, (Greene in his writings give this one as 
 most frequently mentioned and verified somewhat the origin 
 of the name Todd. 
 
 The following is the description: 
 
 Arms — "Three wolves' heads couped gu" 
 Crest — "Wolfe sejeant proper". 
 
 ELEVEN 
 
A HERITAGE OF DISTINCTION 
 
 John Todd who fled from Scotland (covenanter) came 
 to Amtrin, Ireland in 1679. He had two sons, Andrew and 
 Robert, (1697-1775). They were born in Ireland and came 
 to America in 1737 and settled in Pennsylvania. We shall 
 leave the genealogy of Andrew for those interested in that 
 branch. But we shall carry through the family tree of his 
 brother Robert as he was the great-great-grandfather of Mary 
 Todd, wife of Abraham Lincoln. He was also the great- 
 great grandfather of Andrew Todd who was the writer's 
 grandfather. 
 
 Robert's first wife was "Jean Smith" as the records have 
 it and she died in Ireland. But there were two sons born in 
 Ireland to this union . . . John and David. They came to 
 America with their father, Robert. First, let us give a brief 
 report of the brother John and then pass to the brother 
 David. 
 
 John Todd was a distinguished Presbyterian minister 
 and left the vicinity of Norristown, Pennsylvania in 1749, 
 moved to a church in Louisa County, Virginia and established 
 also a school where his three nephews came from Pennsyl- 
 vania to attend this school before moving on to Kentucky. 
 His son, John Todd, Jr. became a minister also and delivered 
 his first sermon in the same church where his father gave 
 his last sermon. The Rev. John Todd, Jr. (1772-1839) moved 
 to Kentucky in 1809. He had three children, a son, Andrew, 
 and two daughters, Eliza and Mrs. James Moore. Eliza mar- 
 ried a Rev. Dr. McCulla and to this union one daughter was 
 born who married the Rev. John Witherspoon (1723-1794). 
 He was a Scottish- American Divine. His dynamic preaching 
 in Scotland and elsewhere had a militant tendencies which 
 made him a prominent figure during the American Revolu- 
 tion. ,He accepted the second call to the presidency of 
 Princeton University in 1768. This marked the turning point 
 of his career and he brought visions of potentialities to this 
 small school which today has become one of the great Amer- 
 ican Universities. He encouraged many Scottish people to 
 come to America which he had learned to love so well. He 
 was also a great statesman and educator. He was a member 
 of the Continental Congress and was the only clergyman to 
 sign the Declaration of Independence. He was the moder- 
 ator of the first General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church 
 in America and had no little part in influence for the adoption 
 of the Bill of Rights (1794) | to the American Constitution. 
 
 TWELVE 
 
The first General Assembly met in Philadelphia in 1789, 
 at the same time the first United States Congress under the 
 new Constitution was meeting in New York. The church 
 assembly appointed a committee, with John Witherspoon as 
 chairman, to draft an address to President George Wash- 
 ington and the congressional committee. [You may be as- 
 sured that the fathers of our country were very happy to 
 know that the leaders of the Protestant churches were in 
 hearty support for the Bill of Rights as amendments embody- 
 ing the very principle so dear to the hearts of the Protestant 
 churches: "Congress shall make no law respecting an estab- 
 lishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; 
 or abridging the freedom of speech or the press; or the right 
 of the people to assemble, and to petition to the government 
 for the redress of grievances." 
 
 John Witherspoon was an embodiment of all Reform 
 Churches, all Protestant churches, and he also married a 
 descendent of the great leader, Rev. John Todd who repre- 
 sents the sacredness of the individual which is found so indel- 
 ibly stamped within the Todds everywhere. 
 
 James Madison who wrote the Constitution of the United 
 States was graduated from Princeton in 1771 and remained 
 another year 1772 in order to be under Witherspoon. Madi- 
 son had thoughts of being a minister and desired the extra 
 year's work. 
 
 THIRTEEN 
 
TODDS CAME TO KENTUCKY FROM 
 PENNSYLVANIA AND VIRGINIA 
 
 The common ancestry of the writer and Mary Todd 
 (Lincoln) ) traces back to the Scotish Covenanters who, lov- 
 ing honor above earthly possessions and holding their faith 
 greater than life, stubbornly fought the King and defied the 
 established Church of England. Of the Covenanters captured 
 at Bothwell Bridge and sentenced to transportation to 
 America, two hundred of these Covenanters were drowned in 
 a shipwreck off the Orkneys. Among those died thus, were 
 two Todds, Robert of Fen wish, and James of Dunbar. John 
 Todd, their brother, as previously stated, fled from the perse- 
 cutions of Claverhouse in Scotland in 1679 and settled in the 
 county of Antrim Ireland. He was described as a Scottish 
 laird meaning simply that he owned land in simple fee and 
 was a landlord, not that he was in any degree allied with the 
 nobility. iHis two sons, Andrew and Robert, came to America 
 with their families in 1737 and located in Montgomery 
 County, Pennsylvania. We have left Andrew and his family 
 to those more interested. But with Robert in whom our 
 interests lies, we begin our genealogy. He was born in Ire- 
 land in 1697, there married his first wife, Jean Smith., She 
 died before they left Ireland. There were two sons by this 
 first marriage, David and John. 
 
 His second marriage was to Isabelle Bodley, daughter of 
 General Bodley. To this union were born nine children: 
 William, Andrew, Robert, Samuel, Levi, Elizabeth, Rebecca, 
 Mary and Sarah. David, the first son by Jean Smith was 
 born in Ireland and married on April 8, 1723 to Hannah 
 Owen. Their third son Levi married Jean Briggs, who begat 
 seven children, the seventh being Robert Smith Todd who 
 married Eliza Ann Parker and their fourth child was Mary 
 Todd who married Abraham Lincoln. 
 
 The writer of this genealogy can trace their relationship 
 to Mary Todd Lincoln, thus: Robert Todd who came to 
 America in 1737, by his second wife, Isabelle Bodley, had 
 nine children as previously stated. His fourth son by the 
 second wife was Samuel. Samuel's son, John Todd married 
 Mary Ruble and settled in Shelby County about thirty miles 
 from Louisville, Kentucky. Land entries of Shelby County 
 records show that he took up land in 1780. To John and 
 Mary Ruble Todd were born eight children. At least three 
 of these children were lorn in Pennsylvania as the census 
 
 FOURTEEN 
 
records show. In all probability the other five were born in 
 Shelby County. The eighth child was David Todd, born May 
 12, 1791 was the writer's great-grandfather who was a third 
 cousin to Robert Smith Todd, the father of Mary Todd Lin- 
 coln. But the records show a closer kinship by the following 
 marriage. 
 
 The genealogy of Mary Todd's mother, Eliza Ann Parker, 
 traces back to the same Robert Todd born in Ireland in 1697, 
 who fled from Scotland. Robert Todd's second wife was 
 Isabelle Bodley. The sixth child was Elizabeth Todd who 
 married William Parker. Their daughter married General 
 Andrew Porter. Their daughter, Elizabeth Porter married 
 Robert Smith Todd. Their fourth child married Abraham 
 Lincoln. It will be seen that Mary Todd's mother and father 
 had the same great grandfather, Robert Todd, having de- 
 scended through his great-grandfather's first marriage to 
 Jean Smith, and Eliza Ann Parker having desecended through 
 their mutual great-grandfather's second marriage to Isabelle 
 Bodley. 
 
 FIFTEEN 
 
SOME SHORT BIOGRAPHIES 
 
 REV. JOHN TODD SR., was licensed by the New Brunswick 
 Presbytery, November 13, 1750, and went to Virginia. He 
 was ordained and installed by Hanover Presbytery, pastor of 
 the Providence church, Louisa County, May 22, 1751. |His 
 daughter married the Rev. Dr. Daniel McCalla of South Caro- 
 lina, who d"ed in 1793. The following were his children: 
 John Todd Jr., Andrew Todd, Eliza Todd (Mrs. McCalla) and 
 Mrs. James Moore. 
 
 REV. JOHN TODD JR., a son, was licensed by Hanover Pres- 
 bytery, September 13, 1800, preaching his first sermon where 
 his father preached his last ... in the year 1809, he moved to 
 Kentucky from the Hanover Presbytery in Virginia. 
 
 JOHN TODD, born 1772 of Virginia Scotch-Irish Presby- 
 terian family . . . became a settled pastor at Charlestown, 
 Indiana, in 1817. . . his wilderness manse, with its latch string 
 always out, became a missionary stopping place. . . John 
 Todd died in Greenwood, Indiana, 1839. His grave is in 
 Greenwood cemetery. 
 
 ANDREW TODD — An eminent physician. . . a surgeon in the 
 Revolutionary War, a gentleman of high attainments in his 
 profession, an ardent patriot and deep piety. He died May 
 1816. 
 
 REV. ANDREW TODD was born January 13, 1800 at Paris, 
 Bourbon County, Kentucky. His grandfather was Rev. John 
 Todd of Louisa County, Virginia, a Presbyterian minister of 
 high character and attainments, fie entered Princeton Semi- 
 nary, 1818, passed through the entire course. He was licensed 
 by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, April 1821. Ordained 
 by the Presbytery of Ebenezer, Kentucky, January, 1823. 
 Went to Jacksonville, Illinois, as pastor, autumn of 1838 Died 
 September 2, 1850. His active ministry at Jacksonville con- 
 tinued for eleven years. He left two children, one of whom is 
 Mrs. Belle T. Waugh, wife of the Rev. Joseph Waugh, Ph. D. 
 of Washington, Pa. 
 
 ELIZA TODD (McCALLA). Rev. Dr. Daniel McCalla about 
 this time 1776, connected his marriage with Eliza, the second 
 daughter of the Rev. John Todd, of the county of Louisa, Va. 
 Their only child was the wife of Rev. John Witherspoon. She 
 passed away in 1809. 
 
 SIXTEEN 
 
MISS TODD (MOORE). John Todd's sister's husband was 
 Rev. James Moore. 
 
 (The Scotch Todds originated south of the Firth of Tay 
 and the Clyde. Very early some of them migrated to York- 
 shire, England, where they spread to the whole of England. 
 For four hundred years, the parish records of all English 
 counties contain records of Todds. The name also is found 
 in government records. We find reference to a John Todd, 
 high sheriff of Yorkshire in 1390. There is also references 
 to a Sir William Todd who was high sheriff in 1477 and Lord 
 Mayor in 1487. Throughout the long history of Great Britain 
 the family has honored its name as well as those who came 
 to America. 
 
 We find records of several Todds who served in the Rev.- 
 lution. John and Robert, descendents of the immigrant 
 Robert, who settled in Virginia, saw service in the Virginia 
 Campaign, and also in Clark's Illinois regiment. Jonathon 
 Todd, descendent from the immigrant Christopher, was a 
 surgeon's mate in several Connecticut detachments. 
 
 SEVENTEEN 
 
MISCELLANEOUS GENEALOGY 
 
 It is believed that the first Todd to emigrate to America 
 was Robert of the Yorkshire branch, who came to Virginia in 
 1622. He had two sons, William and Thomas, the latter of whom 
 settled in Norfolk County, Va., in 1669. His children were 
 Thomas, Robert, William, Phillip, and Christopher. Thomas (2) 
 was the father of Richard, Dorothy, Margaret, Elizabeth, and 
 Francis. William's children were Richard, Thomas, Dorothy 
 and Betty. Phillip was the father of Richard, Phillip, and Chris- 
 topher. Christopher, son of Thomas (1) , had one son, Thomas. 
 
 Records show that several Todds were transported to Vir- 
 ginia as indentured servants during the seventeenth century. 
 There is no extant record of their descendants. Among those 
 Todds transported were Thomas, 1642; Mathew, 1646; Robert, 
 1647; George, 1650; William, 1651; Another Thomas, 1652; and 
 another William, 1654. Records show further that one John 
 Todd settled in Charlestown, Mass., in 1637, removing to Row- 
 ley, Mass., in 1648. His children were John, Timothy, Samuel, 
 James, Mohitable, Ruth, and Mary. There is a record of the 
 descendants of John (2). His children were Hannah, John and 
 Elizabeth. Hannah married John Dale and Elizabeth married 
 Nathaniel Boswell. John (3) was the father of Samuel, Ruth, 
 Daniel, Mary, Elizabeth, and Thomas. Samuel had five children 
 — Samuel, Moses, Thomas, Elizabeth and Sarah. Samuel (2) 
 was the father of Hannah, John, Alexander, George and Enoch. 
 
 At approximately the same time that John settled in 
 Charleston,, Christopher, his cousin settled in New Haven, 
 Connecticut. Children of Christopher were Samuel, Michael, 
 and John. Samuel had the following children: Samuel, Jonah, 
 Daniel, James and Abigail. Children of Michael were Benjamin, 
 Gershon, and Michael. Children of John were John, Johna- 
 than, and Josiah. Samuel (2) had six children: Lydia, Caleb, 
 Christopher, Elizabeth, Samuel, and Suzannah. 
 
 EIGHTEEN 
 
THE TODDS AND THE COVENANTERS 
 
 Covenanters, a name applied to a group of people in Scot- 
 land, the members of which bound themselves by a series of 
 covenants (hence the name) to uphold the Presbyterian forms 
 of doctrines of faith. The most important of the early covenants 
 was drawn up in 1581, at a time when a serious effort was being 
 made to regain Scotland from the Roman Catholic Church. 
 
 The Solemn League of Covenant, entered into by the Gen- 
 eral Assembly of the Church of Scotland and the commissioners 
 of the English Parliament in 1643, was practically a treaty be- 
 tween England and Scotland provided freedom for the estab- 
 lishment of the Presbyterian Church in England, Scotland and 
 Ireland. Both of these covenants were repudiated later by 
 Charles II. (1630-85). These paragraphs are added here to 
 show that members of the Todd families were many of the lead- 
 ers in the belief of the right to worship God in their own way. 
 
 This freedom of religious beliefs was interpreted early by 
 such men as John Knox (1505-72) and John Calvin (1509-64) 
 and can be claimed by most Protestant Churches of today. 
 
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CONDENSED FROM CARL SANDBURG ARTICLES, 
 AND PAMPHLETS FROM NEWBERRY LIBRARY 
 
 It is recorded that there lived in Providence Township, 
 Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, a David Todd, of Scotch- 
 Irish descent, of the covenanters who made bloody war against 
 the established Church of England, fled to Ireland and emi- 
 grated to America. 
 
 In 1783 this David Todd sold his land in Pennsylvania for 
 $12,000 and moved to Kentucky so as to be near the homes of 
 his three sons. 
 
 These three sons, John, Levi and Robert, after being edu- 
 cated at the Virginia School of their uncle, Reverend John Todd, 
 had taken to the Wilderness Road and gone to Kentucky. 
 
 Among the first settlers of Lexington, the blue grass town 
 which became a university seat and a center of culture, was 
 Levi Todd. He took a hand in the fighting that was necessary 
 for white people to hold the new country against the red men 
 who once owned it and for a long time had fought wars among 
 each other for the hunting and fishing rights. 
 
 Lieut. Levi Todd marched under General George Rogers 
 Clark in campaigns to hold the west against Indian tribes and 
 British troops. When Daniel Boone gave over command of the 
 Kentucky state militia, the office was assumed by Levi Todd as 
 Major General. His Uncle Reverend John Todd got from the 
 Kentucky legislature the charter for the Transylvania Sem- 
 inary, later a university of which General Levi Todd was a trus- 
 tee. This school is still a prosperous university. On the Rich- 
 mond Pike near Lexington and neighbor to Henry Clay's home 
 was the large and elegant country estate of Levi Todd, named 
 "Ellerslie." 
 
 The seventh of Levi Todd's eleven children, born in 1791, 
 was Robert Smith Todd, who at fourteen entered Transylvania 
 University, studied mathematics, Latin, astronomy, logic, 
 Greek, history, and according to the university president, James 
 Blythe, "conducted himself in a becoming and praiseworthy 
 manner." Leaving the university he studied law and was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in 1811. The twenty-year-old lawyer didn't 
 begin practice; he held on to his job in the Fayette County cir- 
 cuit court clerk's office. And he paid attention to a seventeen- 
 year-old girl, Eliza Parker. She was the daughter of Major 
 Robert Parker, a Revolutionary War officer, and a first cousin 
 
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of Levi Todd. The Parker home, it was said, was the first brick 
 residence in Lexington. 
 
 When Eliza's father died in 1800, the Kentucky Gazette 
 noted him as "an early adventurer to Kentucky — of extensive 
 acquaintance — and universally esteemed." His will, leaving 
 farms, slaves, town lots and personal property to his widow, 
 enjoined "It is my sincere will and desire that all my children 
 be carefully brought up and well educated." 
 
 Then came the War of 1812. Robert S. Todd as captain of 
 a company of raw militiamen, disbanded his men and enlisted 
 with them in the Lexington Light Infantry. Early in the field 
 service Todd went down with pneumonia, was brought back to 
 Lexington, recovered his health, and decided to go to the field 
 of battle. Young Eliza Parker was willing for him to go. She 
 was also willing to marry him before he should go. On Novem- 
 ber 26, 1812, they were married. On the next day he kissed her 
 goodbye and with a brother rode off to join Kentucky soldiers 
 camped in sleet and snow on the Maumee River. They marched 
 to Fort Defiance through snow drifts and across icy streams. 
 
 They marched with an expedition against Frenchtown on 
 the River Raisin and in a battle with Proctor and his Indians 
 the rifles and tomahawks of the red men killed half of the boys 
 of the company from Lexington. The Kentucky Gazette noted 
 with the news, "Never have people of this town and its neigh- 
 borhood met with a stroke so afflicting as that produced by the 
 late battle of Raisin. . . . We all have lost a relative or friend." 
 
 Two of the Todd brothers, Sam and John, were wounded 
 and taken prisoners. John ran the gauntlet and made his es- 
 cape; Sam was adopted into a tribe and lived with the copper 
 faces for a year, when his liberty was bought for a barrel of 
 whiskey. Robert S. Todd was in the thick of the fighting, came 
 through alive, and before the end of 1813 was at home in Lex- 
 ington housekeeping with the young cousin he had married. 
 
 Robert S. Smith was a prosperous grocer, a partner in 
 Smith and Todd's "Extensive Grocery Establishment," Clerk 
 of the Kentucky House of Representatives, member of the Fay- 
 ette County Court, and still later president of the Lexington 
 Branch Bank of Kentucky, also a cotton manufacturer. Rob- 
 ert S. Todd was a solid and leading citizen. The growing fam- 
 ily that came was served by negro slaves; Jane Sanders, the 
 housekeeper; Chaney, the cook; Nelson, the body servant and 
 coachman; old "Mammy Sally" and young Judy, who took care 
 of the little ones. 
 
 Two daughters, Elizabeth and Frances, were born, then a 
 son Levi, then on December 13, 1818 Mary Ann Todd. Like the 
 others, Mary seemed to be of the well born. She was born as 
 one more beautiful baby in the world, flawless and full of prom- 
 
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ise. A baby brother came, died in the second summer. Then a 
 girl who was named Ann Marie and thereafter Mary Ann 
 dropped the Ann from her name, except in signing legal docu- 
 ments. 
 
 Another baby brother came. And the house was dark. And 
 the horse two wheel carriage of the doctor stood in front of the 
 one-house. And the children were taken next door to their 
 
 grandmother. 
 
 It was the Fourth of July; artillery cadets firing cannon: 
 church bells ringing; famous generals visiting Henry Clay at 
 a barbecue dinner, toasts to Washington, the Union and "The 
 Ladies of the Western Country — the rose is not less lovely, nor 
 its fragrance less delightful because it blooms in the Wilder- 
 ness." 
 
 And the one-horse gigs of the doctors waited in front of 
 the home of Robert S. Todd. The new child, the baby brother, 
 came. But Eliza Parker Todd didn't live through it. It was the 
 next day that old Nelson, the black slave, hitched up the family 
 carriage and delivered to the friends of his master little cards 
 with black border, reading: — 
 
 "Yourself and family are respectfully invited to attend the 
 funeral of Mrs. Eliza P., Consort of Robert S. Todd. Esq., from 
 his residence on Short Street, this evening at four o'clock. July 
 6, 1825." 
 
 Seven months later Robert S. Todd had plans under way 
 to marry Miss Elizabeth (Betsy) Humphreys. She was the 
 daughter of Dr. Alexander Humphreys of Staunton, Virginia. 
 She had uncles distinguished in medicine and politics, and was 
 herself mentioned as having "charms and culture." She quoted 
 a First Family saying of the time: it takes seven generations to 
 make a Lady. The talk of her possible marriage to Robert S. 
 Todd was unpleasant to Mrs. Robert Parker, mother of Todd's 
 first wife. 
 
 The wedding came off at the bride's home in Frankfort, 
 Kentucky, on November 1, 1826. The best man was John J. 
 Crittenden, a United States senator. 
 
 By this second marriage Robert S. Todd had nine children. 
 The first, a boy, named Robert Smith Todd, died a few days 
 after birth. The others, three boys and five girls grew into man- 
 hood and womanhood. Their father for nearly a quarter of a 
 century was elected clerk of the House of Representatives, held 
 various public offices, conducted a bank that never failed, and 
 in T. M. Green's Historic Families of Kentucky was noted as 
 "not a man of brilliant talents, but one of clear strong mind, 
 sound judgment, exemplary life and conduct, dignified and 
 manly bearing, an influential and useful citizen." 
 
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Since interest has given impetus for this genealogy, it 
 seems feasible to add something concerning Mary Todd Lin- 
 coln. And what was the childhood and the growing-up of this 
 Kentucky girl — having a father who was a fighter, an old- 
 school gentleman, a lawyer, a grocer, a cotton manufacturer, a 
 politician — having a mother such as Eliza Parker Todd but only 
 till she was eight years old, — having a stepmother in Elizabeth 
 Humphreys Todd who was reported to be in earnest as to the 
 theory that seven generations are required to make a lady. 
 
 Physically, Mary Todd had the comforts and was well 
 nourished. She ran, played tag, climbed trees, invented mis- 
 chief and was something of a tomboy. There were picnics in 
 summer, barefoot wading in creeks, nutting parties in the fall, 
 sleigh rides in winter, a wide variety of games and sports. 
 
 She rode horseback and once raced a white pony of hers 
 up the gravel driveway of Ashland where Henry Clay himself 
 came out to see her mount a new possession. "He can dance — 
 look!" shouted Mary, touching him with the whip — and the 
 white pony went up on his white legs, forepaws curved in the 
 air, with the salutation to Henry Clay. 
 
 In their further talk Mary said, "Mr. Clay, my father says 
 you will be the next president of the United States. I wish I 
 could go to Washington and live in the White House." And 
 Clay gave her the laughing promise, "If I am elected president 
 I shall expect Mary Todd to be one of my first guests." 
 
 She absorbed politics readily and at fourteen she know 
 why she was a Whig. 
 
 Until she was fourteen her schooling was in Dr. John 
 Ward's Academy. He was strict with his pupils. Recitations 
 were held before breakfast. Classes assembled at five o'clock in 
 the morning. In the winter Mary and her sister Elizabeth often 
 walked in the dark before dawn several blocks to their school 
 to recite their lessons, studied by candlelight the night before. 
 
 At fourteen Mary Todd entered the boarding school of 
 Madame Victorie Charlotte LeClere Mentelle. The madame 
 was a scholar, musician, dancer. The school was advertised in 
 the Lextington Intelligencer: "Mrs. Montelle wants a few more 
 young Ladies as Scholars. Tuition $120 per year including 
 board, washing, paid quarterly in advance." At this school she 
 spent four years. Reports indicate that she was happy in this 
 school. It refers of her taking the leading part in plays. A 
 Louisville woman states her recollection years afterwards: "She 
 was a merry, companionable girl with a smile for everybody. 
 She was really the life of the school, always ready for a good 
 time. Besides, she was one of the brightest girls in the school, 
 always had the highest rank and took the biggest prizes." 
 
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To the region of Springfield, Illinois came three Todd sis- 
 ters. Elizabeth at fourteen was engaged to Ninian W. Edwards 
 and at sixteen married him. Frances in 1839 married William 
 Wallace, a practicing physician who kept a drug store in 
 Springfield. In the midst of this political and social awakening 
 of the new state capital and the quickened interest and high 
 hopes of the leading citizens gathered from all parts of the 
 State, there came into Springfield circles Miss Mary Todd of 
 Kentucky, twenty-one years of age, handsome, accomplished, 
 vivacious, witty, a dashing and fascinating figure in dress and 
 conversation, gracious and imperious by turns. She easily 
 singled out and secured the admiration of such of the Spring- 
 field Beaux as most pleased her somewhat capricious fancy. 
 She was the sister of Mrs. Ninian W. Edwards, (Elizabeth) 
 whose husband was one of the "Long Nine," and who was terri- 
 torial governor of Illinois and later elected governor of the 
 state. This circumstance made Lincoln a frequent visitor at 
 the Edward's name; and being much thrown in Mary's com- 
 pany, he found himself, almost before he knew it, entangled in 
 a new love affair, and in the course of twelve months engaged 
 to marry her. 
 
 She married Abraham Lincoln, November 2, 1842, and 
 assassination ended tv/enty-two years of married life. 
 
 Mary Todd Lincoln (1818-1882), wife of America's mar- 
 tyr-President, whose career in the White House, to which she 
 looked forward with happy anticipation, was filled with 
 anxiety and ended in tragedy. She was born in Kentucky of a 
 pioneer family, but spent her young womanhood with her sister 
 in Springfield, Illinois. Here she refused an offer of marriage 
 from Stephen A. Douglas and accepted Abraham Lincoln. It 
 is said that her lifelong ambition was to be the wife of the Presi- 
 dent, and that in spite of her friends' opinions she chose Abra- 
 ham Lincoln as the man more likely to obtain that office. Until 
 Lincoln's election, she remained quietly in Springfield with her 
 three sons. 
 
 When she reached the White House, her position was 
 attended by none of the pomp which she had anticipated. It 
 was a war-time capital. 
 
 Willie died while they lived in the White House. Tad died 
 shortly after his father's assassination. Robert was very suc- 
 cessful; graduated from Harvard Law School held many prom- 
 inent positions and finally was made president of the great 
 Pullman Company. He married Mary Harlan of Iowa. Of the 
 three children, two survived frm. He died in 1926. 
 
 TWENTY-FOUR 
 
BRIEFS IN HISTORY 
 
 The Todds were people of substance in Scotland and Ire- 
 land before they migrated to America. As a stock they were 
 superior to most of the immigrants. 
 
 You have been told that one of the Pennsylvania Todds, 
 David, sent three of his four sons to his brother, Rev. John 
 Todd of Louisa, Virginia, to be educated. The brother was a 
 man of great ability, an outstanding educator and a forceful 
 preacher. The three boys, Levi, John, and Robert Todd, never 
 returned to live in Pennsylvania, for their uncle had political 
 influence, and this he used with his friend Governor Patrick 
 Henry of Virginia, to secure jobs for his nephews. We can 
 understand Governor Patrick Henry soliloquizing: 'These boys 
 are made of the right stuff. They have been educated and 
 trained by my friend, the Rev. John Todd. I know that their 
 training has been good. Virginia cannot afford to lose the 
 services of these boys. I will make John, Lieutenant Com- 
 mander of Illinois County, Virginia; I will commission Levi 
 and Robert as officers in the army of George Rogers Clark, 
 Commander of Illinois County." And so he did. 
 
 John, Levi and Robert Todd began their life-work as 
 officers in the army of Clark, serving Virginia in its Illinois 
 County. 
 
 In the wars which held the Illinois territory for Virginia 
 and later for the new states carved out of it, two of these Todd 
 boys won their spurs as fighters, the other discharged the civil 
 duties of administration and was generally known as Governor 
 Todd. After peace and security had been attained for the terri- 
 tory north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi, the three 
 Todds transferred their activities to the still insecure Kentucky 
 region. They fought the Indians in Kentucky, and each rose to 
 the rank of general in the Kentucky militia. John was killed 
 in the Battle of the Blue Licks, Kentucky;; also Daniel Boone's 
 son was killed in the same battle. They were among the found- 
 ers of Lexington, and in the early days no citizens of that city 
 were more influential than they. To them came the shipment 
 of books from their uncle and preceptor in Virginia. It was to 
 be a gift to their city, and as such they accepted it. It became 
 the nucleus of the library of Transylvania University. It was 
 the Todds and their relatives, associates and friends who laid 
 the foundation of the first university in "the wilderness that 
 lay beyond the mountains." There were few catalogues of 
 Transylvania University in the early years that did not carry 
 
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the name of one or more of the Todds or the near-relatives in 
 the list of trustees, faculties or students. 
 
 General Levi Todd and Jane Briggs had eleven children. 
 The seventh child, Robert Smith Todd (Mrs. Lincoln's father), 
 was born February 25, 1791, in the house built by his father a 
 few miles from Lexington on the Richmond Pike. He named the 
 place "Ellersly" in honor of a small Scottish village once the 
 home of the Todds. The house is still standing and is now 
 owned by the Lexington Water Company. 
 
 Robert Smith Todd held positions of trust and responsibil- 
 ity. He was for many years the clerk of the House of Repre- 
 sentatives, was state senator and was the president of the Lex- 
 ington branch of the Bank of Kentucky from its establishment 
 in 1836 until his death. 
 
 He and Eliza Ann Parker were married at the home of her 
 parents in Short Street, Lexington, Kentucky. The property is 
 now used as a Baptist orphan's home. The young couple went 
 to house-keeping in a house built by Mr. Todd on an adjoining 
 lot to the Parker home. They had seven children: Levi. Eliza- 
 beth, Frances, Mary (born December 13, 1818) Ann; Robert 
 Parker Todd, who died when he was fourteen months old and 
 was buried in a cemetery on Main Street. The body of the child 
 and that of the mother who died when George was born were 
 later removed and buried together in the Todd lot in the Lex- 
 ington cemetery. 
 
 Mary Todd was related to many illustrious families in 
 Pennsylvania: the Parkers, the Bodleys, the Owens, McFar- 
 lands,, Findleys, Majors and Porters. The great-grandfather, 
 General Andrew Porter, was the close friend of Washington. 
 The Porters furnished Pennsylvania with a governor, and two 
 of them filled cabinet positions. The Todds occupied positions 
 of trust and honor and made the best citizens wherever found. 
 (Lexington Herald, Feb. 7, 1908) 
 
 The Todds have intermarried with the Wickliffs, the Shel- 
 bys, the Breckenridges, the Didlakes, the Brents, the Woodleys, 
 the Craigs, the Swifts, the McDowells, the Parkers, and so on 
 and on. These families have intermarried with the Prestons, 
 the McCaws, the Paines, the Kinkeads, the Woolfolks, so the 
 interests of the Todds extend to most houses in this community. 
 
 John Todd (Mary Todd's great-uncle), the brother of 
 David Todd, was a graduate at Princeton in 1749 and located 
 in Louisa County, Virginia. He became distinguished as a Pres- 
 byterian minister that it is said no history of the Presbyterian 
 Church could be written without honorable mention of him. 
 
 David Todd, John Todd's brother, was the great-grand- 
 father of Mary Todd, in 1783 sold his land in Pennsylvania for 
 
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$12,000, and moved to Kentucky, he and his wife Hanna Owen 
 being so grieved at the loss of their distinguished son, Colonel 
 John Todd, who had been killed two years before at the battle 
 of Blue Licks (said to have been the bloodiest battle between 
 the whites and the Indians ever fought on Kentucky soil) , that 
 they wished to be with the remaining sons, Robert and Levi. 
 David died the year after he moved to Kentucky. David Todd 
 and Hanna Owen had four sons, one of whom, Owen, settled in 
 Ohio and bore a brave part in Indian warfare. The other three, 
 John, Robert, and Levi were educated in a classical school in 
 Virginia taught by their uncle, the Reverend John Todd. The 
 eldest, Colonel John Todd, was appointed by Patrick Henry, 
 then governor of Virginia to be the first civil governor and 
 lieutenant-commander of what is now the great state of Illinois. 
 His record — or minute book is now in possession of the Chicago 
 Historical Society and forms an interesting chapter in the his- 
 tory of the state. 
 
 During the war of the Revolution, General George Rogers 
 Clark numbered among his brave soldiers, three of the Todd 
 brothers. In 1780 Kentucky was divided into three counties, 
 Lincoln, Jefferson, and Fayette, and Patrick Henry then gov- 
 ernor of Virginia, appointed John Todd, Colonel of Fayette, 
 Daniel Boone as lieutenant, and Colonel Thomas Marshall, as 
 surveyor. Robert, the second son of David Todd and Hanna 
 Owen, married his cousin, a daughter of Parson John Todd, 
 studied law and settled in Virginia. Levi, third son of David 
 and Hannah Owen was born in Pennsylvania in 1756, was edu- 
 cated by his uncle, also studied law and came early to Kentucky. 
 He was the purchaser of the first sale of lots in Lexington, Ken- 
 tucky, 1781, filled several offices, became a brigadier — and 
 then a major-general. Both of these titles were won in actual 
 service. He was a sensible, intelligent, well-educated man, so 
 states in T. M. Green's report. 
 
 Levi Todd, one of the three brothers, was Mrs. Lincoln's 
 grandfather. The following statement, written by one of his 
 sons. In 1775. Levi Todd was defeated in an election in Vir- 
 ginia for ensign, as lieutenant of a company; then concluded to 
 2:0 to Kentucky and went, in early 1776 with his brother Robert 
 Todd. He became a lieutenant under George Rogers Clark who 
 sent him as a spy from Kaskaskia to Louisiana to examine the 
 Spanish forces and disposition to the American cause. 
 
 TWENTY-SEVEN 
 
THE TODD-BODLEY POSTERITY 
 
 The writer of this genealogy and his relatives can trace 
 their relationship to Mary Todd Lincoln, thus: — Robert Todd 
 who came to America in 1737, had two children by his first 
 wife, Jean Smith, and by his second wife, Isabella Bodley, had 
 nine children as previously stated. The fourth child, Samuel, is 
 one of forebear of the branch which I am to tell about. His 
 son, John Todd married Mary Ruble and with his first three 
 children moved to Shelby County about thirty miles from 
 Louisville, Kentucky. The record shows that he had eight chil- 
 dren, evidently five were born in Kentucky. Land entries and 
 records show that he took up land in 1780. In the old Kentucky 
 land entries is found that he purchased two tracts of land on 
 Gists Creek, one for 400 acres and the other for 1,000 acres. 
 This land or a part of it was divided between some of his chil- 
 dren in 1827. The names of the children will be listed later. The 
 eighth child was David Todd. He was the writer's great-grand- 
 iather. John and Mary Ruble Todd were buried in the old cem- 
 etery near Olivette Baptist Church on Gists Creek. So far, we 
 have not verified this from their tombstones. This we hope to 
 do. But their names are recorded on the church roster. The 
 writer's great-grandfather married Mary Martin in Shelby 
 County on January 20, 1814 and moved to Lawrence County, 
 Indiana, in 1816 and settled near Mitchell. 
 
 They both are buried in Freedom Cemetery, one mile 
 south of Mitchell and their tombstones bear the following: — 
 David Todd, b-May 12, 1791; d-July 8, 1852. . . . Mary Todd, 
 b-March 20, 1790; d- August 11, 1878. Their first Indiana home 
 was a log-cabin and is now in replica at "Old Town" in Spring 
 Mill State Park two miles east of Mitchell. The logs of this 
 cabin were later moved to the "Old Town" in the Park near the 
 grist-mill which obtained its power from the water coming 
 from Cave near-by. The cabin was there rebuilt and used as a 
 cobbler's store. The cobbler's name was Munson. 
 
 Their second home and more substantial was located about 
 six miles east of Mitchell and East of Fishing Creek, about one- 
 half mile in order to be near their son, Andrew who had pur- 
 chased some 360 acres, and during his elderly aee sold it to the 
 subsidiary of the Bedford Limestone Quarry Company. 
 
 Robert Smith Todd, father of Mary Todd Lincoln and the 
 writer's great-grandfather, David Todd, were born the same 
 year 1791 in Kentucky; had the same great-grandfather, Robert 
 
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Todd who came to America in 1737. In other words the Writer's 
 great-grandfather and Mary Todd Lincoln's father were second 
 cousins. This may not be the exact legal statement as required 
 in law but is the one used in general conversations. If you plot 
 the genealogy graph it can be seen quite definitely. 
 
 Now let us go back and bring up some of the children that 
 might be of interest for those who wish to trace further lineage: 
 
 To John and Mary Ruble Todd of Shelby County, Ken- 
 tucky, the following children are recorded: Elizabeth (Clayton) , 
 Andrew, Ann (Bazel Tegarden) , Johnston, Mary (McCormick) , 
 Robert, Sally (James Glenn) and David. 
 
 This David Todd, the writer's great-grandfather, had four 
 children: Eliza (Bohanon), Abe, Elizabeth (Dalton), and An- 
 drew. 
 
 To Andrew Todd, the writer's grandfather , born January 
 3, 1822; married Elizabeth Stevens, born, August 19, 1824, 
 twelve children grew to adult age, namely:- William Granville, 
 the writer's father, Eliza (Murray), George, Mary (Miller), 
 Caroline (Oldham), Nancy (Shade), Caroline (Fordyce), Lu- 
 cetta (Kirby), John, Harriett (Staniford), Harrison, Ella 
 (Simpson), Marion. 
 
 The following are the families of the twelve children of 
 Andrew and Elizabeth Todd: 
 
 William Granville and Elizabeth Todd (Miller) Arche, 
 Effie (Neidiffer) , Oscar died at age of two, Malcolm N. Todd, 
 (the writer of this genealogy) , Otto, Roscoe, Blish, Cleo (Mc- 
 Clintic). 
 
 To Eliza Todd Murray was born Cora (Taylor), Dora 
 (Mayden), Homer. 
 
 The children of Mary Todd (Miller) : Albert, Eva (Bayer) , 
 Bessie (Kirby), Verna. 
 
 The children of George and Mary Todd: Ida (Miller), 
 Cora, Delbert, Walter, Rose (Smith), Everett, Beulah (Ever- 
 sole), Leslie. 
 
 The children of Caroline Todd (Oldham) : Wilbert, Willie. 
 
 Nancy and John Shade had no children but had an adopted 
 niece, Hattie Fordyce Shade. 
 
 Carolyn and John Fordyce children: Charles, Ira, Fred, 
 Harrison and Hattie. 
 
 Lucetta and Ed. Kirby children: Minnie (Richardson), 
 Oscar, Jennie (Nugent). 
 
 John and Mary Todd: Cassie (Enochs) , Eddie, Elza. 
 
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Harriet and E. Staniford: no children but an adopted 
 child. 
 
 Harrison and Clara Todd: Ralph, Albert, Herbert, Floyd, 
 Homer, Dallas, Bert, Hazel (True). 
 
 Ella and Joe Simpson: no children. 
 
 Marion and Alice Todd: Madge (Gaines), Dewey, Murel 
 (Gaines), Zella (Gaines), Hallie (Trotter), Paul, Harley, Eva 
 (Beasley). 
 
 The author of this genealogy, Malcolm Newton Todd, mar- 
 ried Grace Heitmeier, of Carlyle, Illinois in 1911. There are 
 three children, Dr. Malcolm C. Todd, a surgeon and member of 
 the Fellowship of American College of Surgeon, located at Long 
 Beach, California. The daughter, Jean Elizabeth, married Lt. 
 Colonel C. H. Dunning of the Regular Army and located at pres- 
 ent at Denver, Colorado. The youngest son is Dr. William 
 Henry Todd, specialist in Internal Medicine and Cardiology, 
 located at Long Beach, California. 
 
 The writer has the distinguished honor of having served as 
 a teacher and school administrator for more than fifty years. 
 He has been honored by two school boards as Superintendent 
 Emeritus of schools. He is listed as Who!. Who! in American 
 Education, and is Past Governor of Rotary. He is a writer, 
 author and lecturer. Present address: Lawrenceville, Illinois, 
 Box 477. 
 
 FAMILY TREE IN BRIEF 
 
 Robert Todd came to America in 1737. The figures in parentheses repre- 
 sent the number of children in the family. 
 
 Robert Todd 
 
 Jean Smith, 1st wife Isa Delia Bodley, 2nd wife 
 
 I | 
 
 David Todd (4) 2nd child Samuel Todd (9) 4th child 
 
 ! I 
 
 Levi Todd (4) 4th child John Todd (5) lst child 
 
 i i 
 
 Robert S. Todd (11) 7th child David Todd (8) 8th child 
 
 Mary Todd (Lincoln) (7) 4th child Andrew Todd (4) 4th child 
 
 by lst wife, nine children by second ■ 
 
 wife. 
 
 Wm. Todd (12) lst child 
 
 1 
 Malcolm Todd (8) 4th child 
 
 THIRTY 
 
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